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Test-retest reliability of evoked heat stimulation BOLD fMRI.

Abstract
To date, the blood oxygenated-level dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technique has enabled an objective and deeper understanding of pain processing mechanisms embedded within the human central nervous system (CNS). In order to further comprehend the benefits and limitations of BOLD fMRI in the context of pain as well as the corresponding subjective pain ratings, we evaluated the univariate response, test-retest reliability and confidence intervals (CIs) at the 95% level of both data types collected during evoked stimulation of 40°C (non-noxious), 44°C (mildly noxious) and a subject-specific temperature eliciting a 7/10 pain rating. The test-retest reliability between two scanning sessions was determined by calculating group-level interclass correlation coefficients (ICCs) and at the single-subject level. Across the three stimuli, we initially observed a graded response of increasing magnitude for both VAS (visual analog score) pain ratings and fMRI data. Test-retest reliability was observed to be highest for VAS pain ratings obtained during the 7/10 pain stimulation (ICC=0.938), while ICC values of pain fMRI data for a distribution of CNS structures ranged from 0.5 to 0.859 (p<0.05). Importantly, the upper and lower confidence interval CI bounds reported herein could be utilized in subsequent trials involving healthy volunteers to hypothesize the magnitude of effect required to overcome inherent variability of either VAS pain ratings or BOLD responses evoked during innocuous or noxious thermal stimulation.
AuthorsJaymin Upadhyay, Jordan Lemme, Julie Anderson, David Bleakman, Thomas Large, Jeffrey L Evelhoch, Richard Hargreaves, David Borsook, Lino Becerra
JournalJournal of neuroscience methods (J Neurosci Methods) Vol. 253 Pg. 38-46 (Sep 30 2015) ISSN: 1872-678X [Electronic] Netherlands
PMID26072245 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
CopyrightCopyright © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Chemical References
  • Oxygen
Topics
  • Adult
  • Analysis of Variance
  • Brain (blood supply)
  • Confidence Intervals
  • Hot Temperature (adverse effects)
  • Humans
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Oxygen (blood)
  • Pain (etiology, pathology)
  • Pain Measurement
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Statistics as Topic
  • Young Adult

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